In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo Scaglione), and English and American literary history (Sanford Budick, H. M. Daleski, Denis Donoghue, Robert J. Griffin, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, and Helen Vendler). In addition to shedding new light on a specific author, each essay also refines or reinvigorates critical approaches to specific periods. The analyses illuminate and clarify our understanding of what are traditionally but problematically called the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern eras in European cultural history.
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This is an outstanding anthology. The introductory essay by the anthology's editor distinguished Chaucer scholar Professor Lawrence Besserman ably sets the agenda of the anthology , summarizing the articles to follow, and providing insight into the whole dilemna of ' periodization'. A highly recommended work.
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romantic periodization, perennial literature, aesthetic funding, romantic literary history, cultural periodization, veritas hebraica, literary periodization, fragrant portals, ghostlier demarcations, religio laici, project for the sun, period labels, decentered self, creating day, modem poetry, romantic ideology, poetical character, alchemical treatises Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Key West, Thomas Hardy, World War, The Romantic Ideology, The Book of the Duchess, Clarendon Press, Personal Writings, Anne Mack, Jay Rome, Marianne Moore, New Haven, Ramon Fernandez, United States, Wallace Stevens, Harold Bloom, Canterbury Tales, Joachim of Fiore, Johannes Reuchlin, Wessel Gansfort, James Joyce, Michel Foucault, New Oxford Book, New Testament New!
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- The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco on page 103, and page 106
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